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Re:Burroughs B 5500 Infomration Processing System (1964) [pdf] by tralarpa on Friday February 04, 2022 @06:07AM (#30205331)
> if anyone has come across the sources for the OS

Wouldn't that be this one?

http://www.phkimpel.us/B5500/webSite/SoftwareRequest.html

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Re:Burroughs B 5500 Infomration Processing System (1964) [pdf] by jbdigriz990 on Friday February 04, 2022 @02:51PM (#30212031)
Looks like it. I guess my info was a little stale. Thanks for the link!
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Re:Burroughs B 5500 Infomration Processing System (1964) [pdf] by rbanffy on Friday February 04, 2022 @03:54PM (#30213049)
I remember at CCE (consumer electronics company in Brazil) they had an A-6 with hot failover to a bank’s A-10 across the street. It was pretty normal to see the MCP guru reading the source code for the OS (in ALGOL).
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